Jim Motavalli | Rodale Books, 272 pp., $24.99 When the Toyota Prius debuted in the United States a decade ago, reactions were polarized. Fans loved its tantalizing mileage; skeptics scoffed at its relatively high cost and smug eco-imaging. Today, with…
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Review: Revenge of the Electric Car | OnEarth
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Chris Paine’s 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? arrived with perfect timing, capturing the country’s collective frustration with sky-high energy prices as well as our growing disenchantment with the automotive alternatives on offer. Let’s hope his sequel, Revenge of the Electric Car,…
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story (in Pictures) | OnEarth
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A few years ago, writer Susan Freinkel started wondering how much plastic passed through her life. So she conducted a one-day experiment, recording each plastic-containing item she came in contact with. The tally: 196. They ranged from the obvious to…
Profile – Edward Tufte combines a policy wonk’s love of data with an artist’s eye for beauty and a PR maestro’s knack for promotion | BusinessWeek
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“My father once told me that I would never be successful because I have too much contempt for authority,” says Edward Tufte. “I think that’s been an enormously successful strategy.” At 67, Tufte (pronounced TUFF-tee) defies easy categorization. He has…
Book review – Hot, Flat, and Crowded By Thomas L. Friedman | BusinessWeek
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Enlisting Father Profit to Save Mother Nature — Tom Friedman makes a gripping political, environmental, and economic case for green innovation Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution— and How It Can Renew America. By Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus &…
Book review – “The World Without Us” By Alan Weisman | BusinessWeek
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Save The Planet: Disappear — Weisman presents a curiously refreshing vision of the apocalypse THE WORLD WITHOUT US By Alan Weisman. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press — 324pp — $24.95 The extinction of humankind is a grim topic. Yet in The World…
Book review – Water Everywhere…And Not a Drop to Drink? | BusinessWeek
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AUGUST 12, 2002 BOOKS By Adam Aston BLUE GOLD The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water By Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke New Press — 278pp — $25.95 WATER WARS Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics…